CS4 Acrobat 9 Pro invalid serial number

I have Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection Student Version. I bought it back in 2009. I recently uninstalled everything except Acrobat 9 Pro because I wanted to keep it. I opened Acrobat today and it asked me for a serial number. I typed in the long code that was printed under the "Product Name" on my paper with all of my information, but it said that the number is invalid. I researched and found that a student license NEVER expires, so what's the deal? Another spot asked for my "Coupon Code" saying that it started with 5 letters and 17 numbers, but my coupon code is "8Z24-....." Please help me.

I managed to clean my registry, then reinstalled Acrobat 9 Pro using the Master Collection discs and succeeded. But, now it is giving me crap about "Product is part of a suite and must be opened after opening another program, such as Photoshop." Are you kidding me? I did NOT install anything except Acrobat 9 Pro. However, a few other programs managed to sneek themselves in: Mocha for After Effects CS4, Distiller 9, and LiveCycle Designer ES 8.2. I'm pretty sure that I did NOT check mark the boxes for this crap, so I don't know why I now have it. I'm really thinking about uninstalling the whole thing and just using the trial version of the new Adobe Acrobat XI Pro, for 30 days, of course.

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